Al-Mutanabbi Street starts here / edited by Beau Beausoleil & Deema Shehabi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beausoleil, Beau.

Shehabi, Deema.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Books and reading in literature.

Books--Social aspects.

Books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2012.

Summary:

Beau Beausoleil is the founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition and the author of Concealed in Language. Deema Shehabi is a Pushcart Prize–nominated writer who has contributed to numerous journals, including the Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, and Poetry Review (London). She is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon. They both live in San Francisco. Beau Beausoleil is the founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition and the author of Concealed in Language. Deema Shehabi is a Pushcart Prize–nominated writer who has contributed to numerous journals, including the Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, and Poetry Review (London). She is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon. They both live in San Francisco.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Introduction Beau Beausoleil

Preface Muhsin al-Musawi

I. THE RIVER TURNED BLACK WITH INK

The Bookseller's Story, Ending Much Too Soon Anthony Shadid

A Man in Love with Knowledge Mousa al-Naseri

For al-Mutanabbi Street Naomi Shihab Nye

The Last Word Deena Metzger

The Grief of Birds Sam Hamod

Al-Mutanabbi Street Lutfiya al-Dulaimi

Occident to Orient Zaid Shlah

Ways to Count the Dead Persis M. Karim

Al-Mutanabbi Street Ayub Nuri

Qasida, My Father Spoke at Funerals, Ways to Raise the Dead Marian Haddad

Girls in Red on Page One Sarah Browning

Al-Mutanabbi Street Eileen Grace O'Malley Callahan

Abridged Qasida for al-Mutanabbi Street Roger Sedarat

Al-Mutanabbi Street Elline Lipkin

Fragment, in Praise of the Book Meena Alexander

An Ordinary Bookseller Esther Kamkar

What Prayer Robert Perry

Marianne Moore in Baghdad Gloria Collins

The al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing Brian Turner

In Perpetuity Gloria Frym

Against the Weather (for al-Mutanabbi Street) Owen Hill

Dead Trees Yassin "The Narcicyst" Alsalman

Elegy for al-Mutanabbi Street José Luis Gutiérrez

The Letter Has Arrived Sargon Boulus

Al-Mutanabbi Street Peter Money

Voices Surround &amp

Fade: The Hooded One Peter Money

A Letter to al-Mutanabbi Sinan Antoon

Escape from al-Mutanabbi Street Muhammad al-Hamrani

into the lizard's eyes Lilvia Soto

After Rumi Janet Sternburg

To Salah al-Hamdani, November, 2008 Sam Hamill

Thirty Days after Thirty Years Salah al-Hamdani

Excerpt from Blue Gail Sher

A half-burned page on al-Mutanabbi Street Dunya Mikhail

My Days Lack Happiness and I Want You Irada al-Jabbouri

Remnants Dilara Cirit

Ashes Niamh macFhionnlaoich

The Color She Wears Erica Goss

No Man's Land Daisy Zamora

On al-Mutanabbi Street George Evans.

The Friend Steve Dickison

The River Turned Black with Ink Maysoon Pachachi

II. KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT

Matter and Spirit on al-Mutanabbi Street Summer Brenner

Untitled Jen Hofer

Untitled Rijin Sahakian

Rain Song Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

The Poet Jane Hirshfield

"Close to God" Jack Marshall

A Book in the Hand Susan Moon

Revolutionary Letter #77 Awkward Song on the Eve of War Diane di Prima

Al-Mutanabbi Street Evelyn So

Ethics of Care: The Retreat of al-Mutanabbi Nahrain al-Mousawi

A Secret Question Ko Un

The Road to al-Mutanabbi Street Joe Lamb

Untitled Katrina Rodabaugh

For I Am a Stranger Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

Untitled Mohammed Hayawi

Excerpt from Five Hymns to Pain Nazik al-Malaika

Al-Mutanabbi Street Raya Asee

Attention Saadi Youssef

Destinies Gazar Hantoosh

A Book of Remedies Mark Abley

On the Booksellers' Street of Baghdad Majid Naficy

Crossroads Lewis Buzbee

Untitled Ibn al-Utri

Remembering al-Mutanabbi Thomas Christensen

On Ashurbanipal's Library Amy Gerstler

III. GATHERING THE SILENCES

In the Valley of Love Genny Lim

Night in Hamdan Saadi Youssef

Burning Judith Lyn Sutton

Luis and Celso on al-Mutanabbi Street Josh Kun

Lullaby Dana Teen Lomax

I Recall al-Sayyab Mahmoud Darwish

Country of Large Rivers Etel Adnan

The Murderer Bushra al-Bustani

GHAZAL: Dar al-Harb Marilyn Hacker

A Home on al-Mutanabbi Street Richard Harrison

Proof of Kindness Fady Joudah

Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker's Stroke Philip Metres

Prayer for the Living Hayan Charara

Interpenetrate Annie Finch

The Contract Kazim Ali

Curves in the Dark Deema K. Shehabi

The Booksellers of Pansodan Kenneth Wong

The Proper Purgation Elmaz Abinader

In the Country of the Dead Habib Tengour

Adolescence of Burnt Hands Khaled Mattawa.

From Tales of a Severed Head Rachida Madani

Untitled Amina Said

What Every Driver Must Know Alise Alousi

Explosion Sita Carboni

Letter to My Childhood Friend, the Baghdad Car Bomber Fran Bourassa

Chrysalis Jabez W. Churchill

Al-Mutanabbi Street: Foot Notes after the Fire Daniela Bouneva Elza

Poppies Are Not (Enough) Daniela Bouneva Elza

Psalms and Ashes Linda Norton

Black and Red Fred Norman

Nazik al-Malaika Fred Norman

Al-Mutanabbi Bonnie Nish

random Bonnie Nish

The Twisted Janet Rodney

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Adrienne Rich

The Blues Sat Down on al-Mutanabbi Street Cornelius Eady

March 9, 2007 Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad Julie Bruck

The Secret Carpentry Kwame Dawes

Blackouts Ralph Angel

Moth B.H. Fairchild

Baghdad Callsby Terese Svoboda

They Didn't Ask: What's After Death Mahmoud Darwish

The Airport of Language Amir el-Chidiac

Rocks Aram Saroyan

April Stork Saadi Youssef

Solos on the Oud (#3) Saadi Youssef

See Them Coming Sholeh Wolpé

Love Song Sholeh Wolpé

Until the Glaciers Melt Sholeh Wolpé

Tonight Nathalie Handal

One (for al-Mutanabbi Street) Beau Beausoleil

The Timeless Legacy of al-Mutanabbi Street Azar Nafisi

The Sudden Cessation of Electricity Dima Hilal

Market Forces Runon Tony Kranz

Freedom to Walk Jordan Elgrably

Untitled devorah major

Words Suzy Malcolm

The Last Supper Ibrahim Nasrallah

The Celebration Ibrahim Nasrallah

A Special Invitation Ibrahim Nasrallah

Circle of Prey Rick London

Its First Smell Sarah Menefee

Automatize Roberto Harrison

Verses for Everyday Use Fadhil al-Azzawi

Paper Elegy Amaranth Borsuk

311 and Counting Lamees al-Ethari

A Very Short Letter Shayma' al-Saqr

The Street of the Poet Jim Natal

Contributors

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

"Poets and writers respond to the March 5th, 2007, bombing of Baghdad's 'Street of the Booksellers'"--Cover.

ISBN:

1-60486-766-3

OCLC:

806206073